Better safe than sorry

Barack Obama said yesterday that gun-owning Americans needn't stock up on guns and ammo before he's sworn in next month.

I say, better safe than sorry.

Is "Shoot 'Em Up" anti-gun?

"dirty harry" over at Libertas, the neoconservative Hollywood gadfly site, is bitching about the pro gun-control message of the movie Shoot 'Em Up, which I gave a positive review to here on Sunday. Hmm. From a Left Libertarian perspective, "harry" seems to miss a few important points. First, the anti-gun senator in the film is a goddamn baby-marrow harvester, slaughtering infants and their mothers to keep himself alive. Not a particularly sterling character and certainly not a "good guy." And second, the big gun manufacturer in the film is in cahoots with government bureaucrats to crush his opposition and competition.

If you're an action geek, see the movie. I doubt your libertarian sensibilities will be terribly rattled.

Bumper-sticker of the Week

I really don't have a problem with Rosie on foreign policy issues right now, but on most every other hot topic, like gun control, she consistently comes down on the authoritarian side. Which makes this bumper-sticker, pointed out to me by friends last weekend, so poignant:

GUNS KILL PEOPLE
LIKE SPOONS MADE
ROSIE O'DONNELL FAT